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"Well!" "It is a Louis-Quatorze; could not you get it for me?" "Good morning to you," said the Baron, pulling on Vivian. "You have had the pleasure, Grey, of meeting this afternoon two men who have each only one idea. Colonel von Trumpetson and the Marquis de la Tabatiere are equally tiresome. But are they more tiresome than any other man who always speaks on the same subject?
"Well," began Patty, in a leisurely manner, "I said to the butler, 'Is Mrs. So I walked in and sat down in a pink-and-white embroidered Louis-Quatorze chair. There was a big mirror in front of me, and I had plenty of time to study the effect, which, I will acknowledge, was a trifle mixed." "A trifle," Georgie assented.
A few chairs of the Louis-quatorze taste, with blue velvet linings, faded and worn, a cracked marble table upon legs that once had been gilt; two scarcely detectable portraits of a mail-clad hero and a scarcely less formidable fair, with a dove upon her wrist, formed the principal articles of furniture in the dismal abode, where so "triste" and depressing did every thing appear, that I half regretted the curiosity that had tempted me from the balmy air, and cheerful morning without, to the gloom and solitude around me.
Wine, wax-lights, comestibles, rouge, crinoline-petticoats, diamonds, wigs, Louis-Quatorze gimcracks, and old china, park hacks, and splendid high-stepping carriage horses all the delights of life, I say, would go to the deuce, if people did but act upon their silly principles and avoid those whom they dislike and abuse.
A very Semiramis, the Louis-Quatorze of those Northern Parts. 'Second Creatress of Russia, second Peter the Great in a sense. To me none of the loveliest objects; yet there are uglier, how infinitely uglier: object grandiose, if not great." We return to Friedrich and the Death of Catin. Colonel Hordt, I believe, was the first who credibly apprised Friedrich of the great Russian Event.
"With pleasure! A-a-h! what a box! a Louis-Quatorze, I think?" "Oh, no! by no means so old." "Pardon me, my dear De Konigstein; I think a Louis-Quatorze." "I bought it in Sicily." "A-a-h!" slowly exclaimed the little man, shaking his head. "Well, good afternoon," said the Baron, passing on. "My dear De Konigstein, one pinch; you have often said you have a particular regard for me."
The screen was an old one, of gilt Spanish leather, stamped and wrought with a rather florid Louis-Quatorze pattern. He scanned it curiously, wondering if ever before it had concealed the secret of a man's life. Should he move it aside, after all? Why not let it stay there? What was the use of knowing? If the thing was true, it was terrible. If it was not true, why trouble about it?
The screen was an old one of gilt Spanish leather, stamped and wrought with a rather florid Louis-Quatorze pattern. He scanned it curiously, wondering if it had ever before concealed the secret of a man's life. Should he move it aside, after all? Why not let it stay there? What was the use of knowing? If the thing was true, it was terrible. If it was not true, why trouble about it?
A few chairs of the Louis-quatorze taste, with blue velvet linings, faded and worn, a cracked marble table upon legs that once had been gilt; two scarcely detectable portraits of a mail-clad hero and a scarcely less formidable fair, with a dove upon her wrist, formed the principal articles of furniture in the dismal abode, where so "triste" and depressing did every thing appear, that I half regretted the curiosity that had tempted me from the balmy air, and cheerful morning without, to the gloom and solitude around me.
There are gates of all shapes and times Louis-Quatorze towers, and fortifications specially constructed under Vauban's own eye; while the approach to the town, from the land side, is by a tunnel, cut through the live rock which forms a solid chord to the arc described by the course of the river Doubs.
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